[Leica] IMG: large panorama installation

[Gene Duprey]

Hi Adam,   First off a great photograph.  I guess the only thing I have to
say, is that I would have liked to see it as a single panel, or all
sections merged so as to look like a single panel.  Not sure this is any
help.  Otherwise I really like the way you did mount it.  Although there
appears to be some variances in the gaps between the panels, although this
may just be a optical illusion.

gene


On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge683 at fastmail.com>
wrote:

> Yesterday Steve Barbour generously gave of his time (and risked life and
> limb) to help me install the largest panorama I have ever attempted. It’s a
> morning shot from our camp on the Serengeti in Tanzania.
>
> Just for reference the installation is 175” wide and 40” tall. That’s 4.4
> m by 1.0 m for the non-Imperial world. It’s comprised of, I think, 8
> separate shots with a Sony A7ii, combined and edited in Photoshop (out of
> Lightroom) and printed in three segments on an Epson 9900 using Epson
> Premium Luster (270). I could have printed the entire image but I felt the
> chances of having something go wrong with the printing were too great.
>
> I was faced with how to display it. I thought, originally, to make a
> triptych of equally spaced panels, but that broke the content in the wrong
> places. So I made what was essentially a scale model in Photoshop and
> divided the panels in various ways. I think I had a version with 9
> different panels. Fortunately my wife talked me out of that.
>
> Technically the largest panel I could make had a maximum dimension of 8
> feet (2.4 m) because that’s how large sheets of gatorboard are made. So I
> elected to make three different panels and divide them asymmetrically along
> the horizontal.
>
> I had the panels mounted in Sacramento and then when Steve was free we
> took an hour or so, a few ladders, and some gulping, to put them into
> place. I used 3M Command Strips to afix the images to the painted wall
> surface.
>
> So, here’s a link to how it looks:
>
> <
> https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/2015-Tanzania-Service-Trip/On-Safari/i-7QrXTH7/A
> >
>
> I am a little unhappy with the way the lights cast shadows against the
> wall behind the image’s gaps. I’m thinking that I can slide very black
> paper behind them to reduce that shadow effect. The panels are off-set by
> .5 in (1.27 cm). I can have gatorboard fabricated to fit between the
> segments which would eliminate the shadow. I may try both over time between
> some of the panels to see how it works out.
>
> The lighting comes from below because, well, that’s the way it had to.
> Although I had envisioned a large panorama for this space I knew that in
> the sort run it would have individual prints so I needed flexibility.
>
> I’d appreciate any thoughts on this. Seriously. If you mount large works,
> or if you have seen similar works displayed I’d love to know what might be
> a better way.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Adam
>
>
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